Food preferences dictators

• gastronomical preferences dictators

Roast cobra. Hallucinogenic root. Chicken from KFC. All this - the favorite dish most brutal dictators of the XX century. In the book, Victoria Clark and Melissa Scott "Dinners dictators: tasteless entertainment guide tyrants" (Dictators' Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants) tells the amazing facts from the life of dictators, including table manners, eating habits and fears of poisoning. There also are some recipes.

Kim Jong Il enjoyed soup shark fin from sobachatiny, as well as fat. North Korean dictator thought that dog meat soup gives invulnerability and his masculinity. In addition, Kim Jong Il was considered a great lover of Hennessy cognac.

Kim Jong Il ruled from 1994 to 2011, and while he was in power, North Korea was plunged into a deep crisis, turning a mass famine. While Koreans are starving, the leader held numerous team of specially trained women who were supposed to check that all risinki his plate the same size, shape and color.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and at the end of life ate only mashed potatoes and broth. Some believe that his commitment to a vegetarian diet due to ideological motives, but it is believed that he considered abstaining from meat way of dealing with chronic constipation and bloating.

Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, is known for the seizure of vast territories in Europe and North Africa during the Second World War and the mass extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and others. He was so afraid of being poisoned that held a group of 15 tasters and ate only in the event that none of them died within 45 minutes after a meal.

The leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin was very fond of his native Georgian food for him, which is dominated by walnut, garlic, plum, pomegranate and wine.

He liked to compete in the amount of alcohol consumed and enjoy feasts, which could last for six hours. Complicated menu cooked whole team of chefs.

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini loved the simple salad with coarsely chopped garlic, drizzled with olive oil and drizzled with fresh lemon juice. He thought that French cuisine is "no."

Mussolini founded the Fascist Party in Italy and built a totalitarian state, prefer to dine at home with his wife Rachele and her five children. Lunch in the house Mussolini took place in a fixed time, and everyone had to sit at a table with a plate full of waiting for the head of the family.

The former dictator of Uganda, General Idi Amin loved roast kid, cassava and millet bread. He also ate 40 oranges a day, believing that it is "natural Viagra". Later, when he lived in exile in Saudi Arabia, he liked to eat chicken at KFC and pizza.

Idi Amin overthrew the elected government in a military coup and declared himself president. He brutally rule Uganda for eight years. During his reign, killed about 300 thousand. Citizens. In Idi Amin was a period when he enjoyed all the British and even started the tradition of afternoon tea. Also, there were rumors about his cannibalism.

Cambodian dictator Pol Pot enjoyed venison, wild boar, snakes, fresh fruit, brandy and Chinese wine. He also likes to roast a cobra.

Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge communist movement organized a rigid program of social reconstruction, because of which were executed, died from overwork at work, or from hunger to 2 million Cambodians. Pol Pot arranged luxurious receptions, and its subject is allowed only water with a few grains of rice.

The Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu loved the vegetarian lasagna with the egg, whipped with sour cream sauce, jellied carp in Romanian, as well as simple salad of tomatoes, onions and cheese steak.

Ceausescu rules of socialist Romania from 1965 to 1989. He did not eat not tested properly and threw food from a plate on the floor food at official events, kicking her legs.

Francisco Macías Nguema, the first president of Equatorial Guinea, which is destroyed or made political refugees from one to two thirds of the population, and in which Equatorial Guinea became known as the "African Dachau", liked to drink bhang - tea from the female hemp sprouts and iboga, root African bush with hallucinogenic properties.

On-dinner habits Nguema little is known, but there were rumors that he was a cannibal and collected the skull in the refrigerator.

Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, was already a diabetic and had heart problems, when he came to power in 1950. By 1971, before his death, his wife fed him with a spoon.

After dinner, Papa Doc liked to have fun, going down into the catacombs, the walls of which were painted blood-red color, and watch through the small slot as tortured his enemies.